Amount Koffi Olomide promoter lost in cancelled show

- Koffi Olomide's concert in Nairobi scheduled for Saturday, July 23, 2016 was cancelled after the singer allegedly assaulted his dancer

- His promoter later talked about the massive losses he suffered following the flopped show, saying that it was not KSh 5 million as earlier reported

The promoter who brought in Koffi Olomide for the botched Saturday, July 23 concert is counting losses amounting up to KSh 10 million, and not KSh 5 million as earlier reported by sections of the media.

Jules Nsana of Nsana Promotions told The Standard he had suffered massive losses of about KSh 10 million, after the 60-year-old Congolese crooner was deported from Kenya over assault allegations, and that he was not keen on working with Koffi in the near future.

Nsana, a locally-based Congolese promoter, is responsible for bringing in some of the top Rhumba stars including Fally Ipupa and Ferre Gola.

The promoter listed bookings of the Bomas of Kenya venue, the sound and stage set-up, air tickets and talent fees, as well as costs of advertising the show for weeks, as among some of the items he spent on, only for the show to flop after Koffi’s fiasco with one of his dancers at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi when they arrived early Friday morning.

He told Capital FM on Saturday that those who had booked tickets for the concert would be refunded.

Koffi was deported back to Congo by Kenyan authorities after a video showing him apparently assaulting a female dancer went viral.

His lawyer George Wajackoyah said the deportation was unfair as there was no complainant in the case.